Second League. Miner and Polesie are eliminated from the race for promotion in the class

20.05.2019 22:48

After a strong-willed victory over Podillya, Minaya players at least guaranteed themselves participation in transitional matches with one of the first league outsiders. Photo by ffz.org.ua

Only in the penultimate round did any certainty emerge with the teams still claiming to make it to the first league.

And if in group "B" the players of "Flint" took the first place ahead of schedule, then their main pursuer, "Miner", slowed down sharply at the finish, disappointing his many fans. Sensationally losing yesterday in the home walls of "Tavria Simferopol", the wards of Gennady Prikhodko lost almost all chances for the second position, which gives the right to participate in transition matches with one of the outsiders of the first league. Today, their misfire was used to the maximum by the players of Zaporizhzhya "Metalurg", who, having won over "Mir", will continue to fight for promotion in the class.

There was no lack of unexpected results in the reporting round and in group "A". First of all, one of the leaders, Zhytomyr's Polissya, will have to postpone its ambitious plans for the first league for another year. And the wards of Anatoliy Bezsmertny can only blame themselves for this, because at home they lost to the middle-class man, Ternopil's Niva, in overtime. Another field turned out to be happy for Veres, whose performances in May are reminiscent of swinging. This time the football players from Rivne were on strike and confidently beat Vinnytsia's Niva, which even claimed first place a few rounds ago.

And yet in this group all the dots above the "and" will be put only in the final round. So far, Cherkasy-Academy is ahead, although its latest major victory should not be misleading. In the match against Kalush, Oleksandr Kyryliuk's charges scored the third and fourth goals in the 90th minute and in stoppage time, respectively. It should be noted the stopper of the winners, Oleg Tarasenko, who made a double.

Two points less - the players of "Minaya", who, it seems, like strong-willed victories. In the previous round, with Bukovyna, they missed first, the same thing happened yesterday in the confrontation with Podillya. And yet, thanks to the support of 2000 fans, the hosts still tilted the scales to their side. Again, Minaya scorer Robert Hegedos, who now has 13 goals, did not leave the field without a goal. The recently successful game of the Transcarpathian football players impressed the FC management, and after the victory over Podolia, the acting head coach Kirill Kurenko was offered to sign a full-fledged contract.

Meanwhile, today it was decided that the host of the "golden match" in the second league, which will be held on June 1 on a neutral field in Kropyvnytskyi (starting - at 17.00), will be the team that will take first place in group "A". Also after the draw for the playoffs to reach the first league, it became known that on May 29, the team that finishes second in Group B will host the 13th team of the first league, and the team that will take 14th place in the first league, at home will meet with the second team of group "A". The return matches will take place on June 2.

26 round

Group A

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"Niva" B - "Veres" - 1: 3

"Cherkasy-Academy" - "Kalush" - 4: 1

Polissya - Niva T - 0: 1

"Bukovina" - "Chaika" - 0: 4

"Minai" - "Podillya" - 3: 1

Standings

According to the decision of the FFU SCC dated November 14, 2018 on violation of the Regulations on the allowed number of substitutions of FC Veres (Rivne) players, a technical defeat (0: 3) is credited, and the Chaika team (Petropavlivska Borshchahivka) is credited with a technical victory (3: 0). .

Group B

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"Flint" - "Energy" - 2: 2

"Miner" - "Tavria Simferopol" - 1: 2

"Nikopol" - "Real Pharma" - 1: 1

"Crystal" - "Nikolaev-2" - 4: 1

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Metalurg - Mir - 2: 0